[ltp] Unsolicited requests for shut down

[Athanasios Velios]

I had Psensor installed for a while and the temperature readings did not 
seem to make sense. For example, as soon as I turned on the computer and 
the temperature was still low, I would start compressing files and the 
Shut Down request would come up. By cancelling and carrying on, the 
temperature would increase but no other request would come up. I do not 
think that the temperature ever went over 60 degrees C anyway and the 
cooling fan seems to be working as expected. Plus the motherboard has 
been replaced on this laptop for a different reason and the problem is 
there with both old and new.

Would any of the logs record the shutdown request, so that I can trace 
it back?

Thanasis

On 16/05/12 11:00, Ricardo Reis wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2012, Athanasios Velios wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Since February I have a strange problem on my Thinkpad X220 Tablet
>> which runs Linux. When there seems to be a lot of activity (e.g.
>> backing up or compressing files) the OS requests to shut down as if I
>> chose Shut Down from the menu. This happens with different
>> distributions (I have tried Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 and the current
>> Fedora). I am not sure where to look for possible errors. The logs do
>> not show something obvious, but I may not be looking at the right place.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> overheat? what is reported by sensors, for instance? you can put a
> script running in the background, with watch, for instance, to dump
> sensors to a file every 1 min. when you reboot you can inspect and see
> what were the temps when you were shutdown.
>
> from the top of my mind that is what your problem makes me think off
>
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